The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine .. . oted,) and they pursued us. Captain Thomas,having taken a long walk with Cammett, was tired, and gaveout. We halted, being thirty yards ahead of him, to seewhat his fate might be. I saw him shot, the ball whizzingby me; and he fell on his face, and seemed to die this, we expected no quarter, if taken. I felt approach-ing weakness from loss of blood, and feared I must soongive up. We very soon entered the bushes, Cammett goingahead. I soon lost him, and made my way alo
The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine .. . oted,) and they pursued us. Captain Thomas,having taken a long walk with Cammett, was tired, and gaveout. We halted, being thirty yards ahead of him, to seewhat his fate might be. I saw him shot, the ball whizzingby me; and he fell on his face, and seemed to die this, we expected no quarter, if taken. I felt approach-ing weakness from loss of blood, and feared I must soongive up. We very soon entered the bushes, Cammett goingahead. I soon lost him, and made my way along till night,among the palmettoes, which cut my feet cruelly ; added tothis, were mosquitoes, which were a formidable foe. Atdark, on Sunday night, I came out on the beach, and trav-elled till nearly daylight. Finding my wounds bleeding pro-fusely, I tore off* the bottom of my flannel shirt, and boundthem up, — which continued to bleed all the next day. Ilay down, and sometimes fell down, often thinking I shouldnot be able to rise again. My fears were increased from the28 326 THE WRECK OF THE BRIG The Death of Captain Thomas, and Escape of VVj^er and Cammett. trail of blood which I left behind, knowing this to be a goodmark for them. Monday I continued to travel the beach —went to the river, running parallel with the sea, for water —ate nothing that day — came to New River, waded in to myneck, and swam off, finding the current setting from bothshores to the centre, making it very doubtful to me, fromthe long time I was there, whether I could ever reach theopposite shore. Here I was about to despair. I finally gotfoothold and gained the shore, but found myself very muchexhausted. I should think the river was a quarter of a milewide. It was about night. I kept on — occasionally wouldlie down during the night, gathering the sea-weed to coverme, while asleep — when I awoke, would go on again tillweary, and then take a nap. Tuesday morning, fair weather — saw a
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